A life can slip by on autopilot. Every few months, check whether you’re still headed somewhere you chose.

Momentum is efficient and completely indifferent to direction. Habits, courses and commitments keep running on their own long after the reason for them expired, which is how people end up far along a road they never picked. Nothing interrupts that except a deliberate look at the map.

Put a reminder in your phone for three months out asking whether this is still what you want. Keep the question short enough that you will actually answer it.